Fun With Words: Word Oddities Word Oddities Longest Words Cabbaged and fabaceae, each eight letters long, are the longest words that can be played on a musical instrument. Seven letter words with this property include acceded, baggage, bedface, cabbage, defaced, and effaced. Aegilops, eight letters long, is the longest word whose letters are arranged in alphabetical order. Seven letter words with this property include beefily and billowy. Six letter words include abhors, accent, access, almost, biopsy, bijoux, billow, chintz, effort, and ghosty. Spoonfeed, nine letters long, is the longest word whose letters are arranged in reverse alphabetical order. Trollied is an eight letter word with this property. Seven letter words with this property include sponged and wronged. Cimicic and Cimicid, each seven letters long, are the longest words that are exclusively made up of Roman Numerals. Nonsupports, eleven letters long, is the longest word in the English language made up of only letters in the second half of the alphabet. Ten letter words include prosupport, soupspoons, and zoosporous.

Overnumerousnesses, eighteen letters long, is the longest English word that consists of only letters that lack ascenders, descenders, and dots in lower case. Overnervousnesses is seventeen letters. Sixteen letter words with this property include curvaceousnesses and overnumerousness. Fifteen letter words with this property include erroneousnesses, nonconcurrences, overnervousness, and verrucosenesses. Lighttight and lillypilly, each ten letters long, are the longest English words consisting only of letters with ascenders, descenders, or dots in lower case. Tittifill, nine letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of letters with ascenders or dots in lower case. Eight letter words with this property include libidibi and tikitiki. The only English words that consist entirely of letters with descenders in lower case are gyp and gyppy. Honorificabilitudinitatibus, 27 letters long, is the longest English word consisting strictly of alterating consonants and vowels. An eighteen letter word with this property is epicoracohumeraler. A seventeen letter word with this property is hypovitaminosises.

Sixteen letter words with this property include aluminosilicates, depolarizability, and supererogatorily. Fifteen letter words with this property include cytomegalovirus, heterozygosises, hexosaminidases, paramyxoviruses, pararosanilines, parasitological, tenosynovitides, tenosynovitises, unimaginatively, and verisimilitudes. The Rot13 method of encrypting text is performed by rotating the alphabet by thirteen characters. Because there are 26 letters in the alphabet, the decryption process is the same as the encryption. The longest words to form other words when Rot13 encrypted are the seven letter words abjurer and nowhere, which become each other. Letters Dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly, and uncopyrightable, each fifteen letters long, are the longest English words in which no letter appears more than once.

Fourteen letter words with this property are ambidextrously, benzhydroxamic, hydromagnetics, hydropneumatic, pseudomythical, schizotrypanum, sulphogermanic, troublemakings, undiscoverably, and vesiculography. Esophagographers and unprosperousness, each sixteen letters long, are the longest English words in which each of their letters occurs at least twice. Esophagographers, sixteen letters long, is the longest English word in which each of its letters occurs exactly twice. A fourteen word with this property is scintillescent. Twelve letter words with this property include happenchance and shanghaiings. Ten letter words with this property include arraigning, concisions, intestines, and horseshoer. Sestettes is a word in which each of its letters occurs three times. The word chincherinchee is the only known English word which has one letter occurring once, two letters occurring twice, and three letters occurring three times. Ultrarevolutionaries is a word in which each of the five main vowels occurs twice.

Eunoia, six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels. Seven letter words with this property include adoulie, douleia, eucosia, eulogia, eunomia, eutopia, miaoued, moineau, sequoia, and suoidea. (The scientific name iouea is a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges.) Caesious, eight letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels in alphabetical order. Nine letter words with this property are acheilous, acheirous, aerobious, arsenious, arterious, autecious, facetious, and parecious. Suoidea, seven letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels in reverse alphabetical order. Other words with this property are scarce; they include the ten letter words duoliteral and unoriental, the fourteen letter word subcontinental, and the fifteen letter words neuroepithelial and uncomplimentary. Facetiously, eleven letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all six vowels in alphabetical order.

A twelve letter word with this property is abstemiously. The fourteen letter words adventitiously and sacrilegiously have this property but also have repeated vowels. Twyndyllyngs, twelve letters long, is the longest word in the English language without any of the five main vowels. An eleven letter word with this property is the singular form, twyndyllyng. An eight letter word with this property is symphysy. Seven letter words with this property include gypsyfy, gypsyry, nymphly, and rhythms. Strengths, nine letters long, is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel. Strengthlessnesses, eighteen letters long, is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel repeated. A seventeen letter word with this property is defenselessnesses. A sixteen letter word with this property is strengthlessness. A fifteen letter word with this property is defenselessness. A fourteen letter word with this property is degenerescence.

Thirteen letter words with this property are degenerescent, disinhibiting, effervescence, handcraftsman, kinnikinnicks, philistinisms, primitivistic, retelemetered, and whipstitching. Euouae, six letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and, also, the English word with the most consecutive vowels. Words with five consecutive vowels include cooeeing and queueing. Archchronicler, catchphrase, eschscholtzia, latchstring, lengthsman, and postphthisic each have six consonants in a row. Borschts has six consonants in a row in just one syllable. Words with five consecutive consonants include angstrom, angsts, birthplace, dumbstruck, eighths, heartthrob, lengths, postscript, strengths, thumbscrew, twelfths, warmths, and witchcraft. Hotshots consists of the same four letters repeated.

There are other eight letter words with this property, but none are common: beriberi, caracara, chowchow, couscous, froufrou, greegree, guitguit, kavakava, lavalava, mahimahi, and matamata. Abcaree, abchalazal, abcoulomb, crabcake, and drabcloth are among the only words in the English language that contain "abc." Hydroxyzine is the only word in the English language that contains "xyz." The longest alphabetic sequences to appear in English words are "mnop" and "rstu." Mnop appears in such words as gymnopaedic, gymnophiona, gymnoplast, limnophilous, prumnopitys, semnopithecus, somnopathy, and thamnophile. Rstu appears in such words as overstudy, overstuff, superstud, and understudy. You and ewe are pronounced the same but share no letters in common. Eye and I is another such pair. Oh and eau is yet another. Subbookkeeper is the only English word with four pairs of double letters in a row.

Assessee and keelless are the shortest words with three pairs of double letters. Cooee is the shortest word with two double letters. Only a few words (not counting three letter words) start with the same three letters they end with. They include: aftershaft, anticipant, anticoagulant, anticonvulsant, antiformant, antioxidant, antiperspirant, calendrical, entablement, entanglement, entertainment, enthrallment, enthralment, entrapment, hotshot, ingesting, ingratiating, ingrowing, ionization, microsomic, nicotinic, physiography, phytogeography, phytography, redeclared, respires, restores, restructures, tormentor, and underground. As a special case, six letter words with this property are atlatl, bonbon, booboo, bulbul, cancan, chichi, dumdum, grigri, motmot, murmur, pawpaw, pompom, tartar, testes, and tsetse. Fewer words (excluding four letter words) start with the same four letters they end with.

These include uricosuric and the nonsense word abracadabra. As a special case, eight letter words with this property are beriberi, caracara, chowchow, couscous, froufrou, greegree, guitguit, hotshots, kavakava, lavalava, mahimahi, and matamata. Typewriters Aftercataracts and tesseradecades, each fourteen letters long, are the longest words that can be typed using only those letters normally typed with the left hand. Twelve letter words with this property include aftereffects, desegregated, desegregates, reasseverate, reverberated, reverberates, and stewardesses. Johnny-jump-up and niminy-piminy, twelve letters long, are the longest words that can be typed using only those letters normally typed with the right hand. Eleven letter words with this property include hypolimnion and kinnikinnik. Nine letter words with this property include homophony, homophyly, monophony, nipponium, nonillion, pollinium, and polyonomy.

Leptothricosis and leucocytozoans, each fourteen letters long, are the longest English words that are normally typed using strictly alternating hands. Thirteen letter words with this property include antiendowment, antisudorific, autotoxicosis, dismantlement, leucocytozoan, and neurotoxicity. Twelve letter words with this property include authenticity and suspensorial. Postmuscular, twelve letters long, is the longest English word that is normally typed by switching hands every two letters. Rupturewort, eleven letters long, is the longest word that can be typed using only those letters in the top row of a typewriter. Ten letter words with this property are pepperroot, pepperwort, pewterwort, pirouetter, prerequire, pretorture, proprietor, repertoire, repetitory, tetterwort, and typewriter. Shakalshas, ten letters long, is the longest English word that can be typed using only those letters in the middle row of a typewriter. Nine letter words with this property include flagfalls, hadassahs, and haggadahs.

Eight letter words with this property include alfalfas, galagala, galahads, and haskalah. Deeded, hummum, muhuhu, and muumuu, each six letters long, are the longest English words that are normally typed with just one finger. Five letter words with this property include ceded, mummy, unnun, and yummy. RinkWorks.com is typed by alternately moving left and right from key to key. Symmetry CHECKBOOK, nine letters long, is the longest word in the English language composed entirely of letters with horizontal symmetry in upper case. Eight letter words with this property include BEDECKED, BOOHOOED, CODEBOOK, COOKBOOK, DOBCHICK, EXCEEDED, HOODOOED, and KEBOBBED. HOMOTAXIA, nine letters long, is the longest word in the English language composed entirely of letters with vertical symmetry in upper case. Eight letter words with this property include AUTOMATA, AUTOTOMY, MOTIVITY, MAHIMAHI, MATAMATA, MYXOMATA, and THATAWAY.

Seven letter words with this property include AUTOMAT, MAMMOTH, MAXIMUM, TAXIWAY, WITHOUT, and the proper name TIMOTHY. Hyphenated terms with this property include HOITY-TOITY and MOUTH-TO-MOUTH. HAH, HOH, HUH, MA'AM, MOM, OHO, TAT, TIT, TOT, TOOT, TUT, and WOW are several words which, when written in upper case letters, have vertical symmetry. I, OHO, and IHI'IHI are the only words in the English language that, when written in upper case letters, have horizontal and vertical symmetry and consist entirely of letters that have both horizontal and vertical symmetry. ZOONOSIS, eight letters long, is the longest word in the English language composed of letters with 180 degree rotational symmetry. Six letter words with this property include NINONS, ONIONS, and SOZINS. MOW, SIS, and SWIMS, when written in upper case letters, have 180 degree rotational symmetry.

COUSCOUS, eight letters long, is the longest word in the English language such that one cannot tell visually if it's been written in all upper case or all lower case letters. Four letter words with this property are COCO, COOS, COWS, CUSS, SCOW, VOWS, WOOS, WUSS, and ZOOS. Anagrams Conservationalists and conversationalists, each eighteen letters long, are the longest non-scientific English words that are anagrams of each other. Internationalism and interlaminations are sixteen letter anagrams of each other. Basiparachromatin and marsipobranchiata, each seventeen letters long, are anagrams of each other that have no more than three consecutive letters in common. Thermonastically and hematocrystallin are sixteen letter anagrams of each other that have this same property. Nitromagnesite and regimentations, each fourteen letters long, are anagrams of each other without any consecutive letters in common. Interrogatives, reinvestigator, and tergiversation, each fourteen letters long, are the longest three non-scientific English words that are anagrams of each other.

They have no more than three consecutive letters in common with each other. Monday is the only day of the week that has an anagram, which is dynamo. March, April, and May are the only months of the year that have anagrams, which are charm, ripal, and yam. Earth, having the anagrams hater and heart, and Mars, having the anagrams arms and rams, are the only planets with anagrams. Contained Words Thitherwards contains the most English words spelled consecutively within it: a, ar, ard, ards, er, he, her, hi, hit, hithe, hither, hitherward, hitherwards, I, it, ither, the, thither, thitherward, wa, war, ward, and wards, totaling twenty-three words. Therein, seven letters long, contains twelve words: er, ere, he, her, here, herein, I, in, re, rein, the, and there. Ushers contains the most personal pronouns spelled consecutively within it: he, her, hers, she, and us, totaling five pronouns.

Syllables Scraunched and the archaic word strengthed, each ten letters long, are the longest English words that are only one syllable long. Nine letter monosyllabic words are scratched, screeched, scrounged, squelched, straights, and strengths. Rugged is a two syllable word that can be made one syllable by adding letters to it to make shrugged. The two syllable word ague can be made one syllable by adding letters to make it vague or plague. Are is a one syllable word that can be made into a three syllable word by adding just one letter to make area. Similarly, came can become cameo, gape can become agape, and lien can become alien. Adding a letter to the middle of smile becomes the three syllable word simile. Similarly, whine can become wahine. Io may be the shortest two syllable word in the English language. Other candidates are aa, ai, and eo, but there is some dispute over the pronunciation and legitimacy of these words. Iouea, five letters long, is the shortest four syllable English word.

Oceania, oogonia, and oxyopia, each seven letters long, are the shortest five syllable English words. Chasm, dirndl, massacring, rhythm, sarcasm, and vrbaite have more syllables than pronounced vowels. Contractions and words that end in ism and ithm also have this property. Proper names with this property include Edinburgh and Hamtramck. Articles Sometimes redundancy creeps into accepted usage when terms are translated from one language to another. Rio Grande River is redundant to a speaker of both English and Spanish, as is Sierra Mountains, but, when addressing an English speaker, the extra English specification makes sense. Back to Word Records Word Records BORED? Play our free word games – INTERACTIVE HANGMAN Word Records Here is a selection of record-breaking words: typewriter words , subalphabetic words , symmetrical words , most looked-up words , and most misspelled words . See also these sections: longest word , vowel records , consecutive letter records , Scrabble game records , and Angry, Hungry, and GRY words . Typewriter Words TYPEWRITER (10 letters) can be typed using only the top row of keys on a standard keyboard.

Other ten-letter words with this property are PEPPERROOT, PEPPERWORT, PERPETUITY, PEWTERWORT, PIROUETTER, PREREQUIRE, PRETORTURE, PROPRIETOR, REPERTOIRE, REPETITORY, TETTERWORT. If hyphens are allowed, then TEETER-TOTTER (12 letters) is possible, as is TEETER-TOTTERER (14 letters), although the latter is not found in dictionaries. Another possible 12-letter word, POWERTRIPPER, is also not in any major dictionary. SHAKALSHAS (10 letters) is the longest word which can be typed using only the middle row of letters on the keyboard. Others include HAGGADAHS, FLAGFALLS, HADASSAHS, GALAGALA, GALAHADS, HASKALAH, and ALFALFAS. The only dictionary word which can be typed using only the bottom row of letters is ZZZ (to indicate sleeping).

(There are no vowels in the bottom row.) AFTERCATARACTS, TESSERADECADES and TETRASTEARATES (each 14 letters) are the longest words which can be typed using only the fingers of the left hand, using the standard method of typing. Using only the fingers of the right hand, one can type the 12-letter word JOHNNY-JUMP-UP (common name for a flower) including the hyphens, and also PHYLLOPHYLLIN (13 letters). Subalphabetic Words FICKLEHEADED and FIDDLEDEEDEE are the longest English words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet, each being 12 letters long. The 13-letter CABBAGEHEADED and ILLEFFACEABLE are not in dictionaries. Unfortunately, neither is HIGGLEHAGGLED nor GIBBLEGABBLED, also 13 letters each. It is harder to make long words from the second half of the alphabet, as there are only two vowels, and these vowels are less common than those found in the first half of the alphabet.

The longest is NONSUPPORTS (11 letters), although if place names are allowed then the 13-letter words TUTTOQQORTOOQ (in Greenland) and ROSSOUWSPOORT (in South Africa) are valid. ACCEDED, CABBAGE, BAGGAGE, DEFACED, EFFACED, and FEEDBAG are seven-letter words which can be played on a musical instrument, that is to say they contain only letters in the range A-G. CABBAGED, at eight letters, is the longest such word. Symmetrical Words Closely related to palindromes , symmetrical words are words that have an axis of symmetry, or point of rotational symmetry. Needless to say, it is relevant whether the word is written in upper or lower case. Some long words with horizontal symmetry are: BEDECKED, BOOHOOED, CHECKBOOK, CODEBOOK, COOKBOOK, DECIDED, DIOXIDE, DOBCHICK, EXCEEDED, HOODOOED, and KEBOBBED. The longest such word, with ten letters, is OKEECHOBEE.

The longest words with vertical symmetry are OTTO, MAAM, and TOOT. Others include MOM, WOW, AHA, AHA, AIA, AMA, AVA, AWA, HAH, HOH, HUH, MAM, MIM, MUM, OHO, OXO, TAT, TIT, TOT, TUT, UTU, VAV, and WAW! When written in upper case, the word BID has horizontal symmetry, but when written in lower case it has vertical symmetry – bid! SWIMS is probably the longest word with 180-degree rotational symmetry. All of the letters in the words SOONISH (7 letters) and ONIONS (6 letters) independently have 180-degree rotational symmetry. Most looked-up and most misspelled Words PARADIGM was the word most frequently looked up in 1998 in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary. Some other words frequently looked up, besides obscene words, were UBIQUITOUS, ESOTERIC, OXYMORON, SERENDIPITY, HUBRIS, OBSEQUIOUS, and ECLECTIC.

In 2001, the ten most frequently looked up words in the Cambridge Dictionaries Online were SERENDIPITY, IDIOM, PARADIGM, UBIQUITOUS, DICTIONARY, PRAGMATIC, EFFECT, GRY, JINGOISM, and FOIBLE. The most frequently looked up article in the World Book Encyclopedia is said to be SNAKE. The words most likely to be misspelled (ratio of incorrect to correct spelling) according to a study of Usenet traffic some years ago were DUMBELL, OCCURRENCE, MEMENTO, FRUSTUM, COLLECTIBLE, AMATEUR, DAIQUIRI, PASTIME, ACCIDENTALLY, PLAYWRIGHT, EMBARRASS, ACQUIT, HARASS, and PRONUNCIATION.

The same study showed the words most frequently misspelled (by gross count) to be: RECEIVE, A LOT, AMATEUR, SEPARATE, REALIZE, THEIR, DEFINITE, INDEPENDENT, WEIRD, EMBARRASS, ARGUMENT, NO ONE, ACQUIRE, ACCIDENTALLY, OCCURRENCE, COLLECTIBLE, RIDICULOUS, MANEUVER, LIAISON, GAUGE, ATHEIST, GRAMMAR, SUPERSEDE, KERNEL, and CONSENSUS. More Word Records Word Trivia Word Trivia Longest Words The longest English word that does not contain the letter 'e' is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Cabbaged and fabaceae, each 8 letters long, are the longest words that can be played on a musical instrument. Aegilops, 8 letters long, is the longest word with its letters arranged in alphabetical order. Spoonfeed, 9 letters long, is the longest word with its letters arranged in reverse alphabetical order. CIMICIC and CIMICID, each 7 letters long, are the longest words that are exclusively made up of Roman numerals when written in upper case.

Among words consisting of only Roman numeral letters, the "highest scoring" are MIMIC (2,102) and IMMIX (2,012). Overnumerousnesses, 18 letters long, is the longest word that consists of only letters that lack ascenders, descenders and dots in lower case. Lighttight and hillypilly, each 10 letters long, are the longest words consisting only of letters with ascenders, descenders and dots in lower case. Tittifill, 9 letters long, is the longest word consisting only of letters with ascenders or dots in lower case. Honorificabilitudinitatibus, 27 letters long, is the longest word consisting strictly of alternating consonents and vowels. Dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly and uncopyrightable, each 15 letters long, are the longest words in which no letter appears more than once. Subdermatoglyphic, at 17 letters, is longer but is very obscure and rarely used. Unprosperousness, 16 letters long, is the longest word in which each letter occurs at least twice.

Esophagographers, 16 letter long, is the longest word in which each of its letters occurs twice. Fickleheaded and fiddledeedee, both 12 letters long, are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet. Discrete - discreet is the longest homophonic anagram (2 similarly pronounced words that are spelled differently but sound the same and are composed of the same letters). Redivider is the longest common palindromic word ( a word reading the same backwards and forwards). The longest words that are reverse images of each other are stressed and desserts. Symmetry CHECKBOOK, 9 letters long, is the longest word composed entirely of letters with horizontal symmetry in upper case. Some others with this property are: BEDECKED, BOOHOOED, CHECKBOOK, CHOICE, CODEBOOK, COOKBOOK, DECIDED, DIOXIDE, EXCEEDED, HIDE, ICEBOX, OBOE. HOITY-TOITY, at 10 letters long, is the longest word composed entirely of letters with vertical symmetry in upper case. HOMOTAXIA, 9 letters long, is another with this property.

I and OHO are the only words that, when written in upper case, have horizontal and vertical symmetry and consist of letters that have both horizontal and vertical symmetry. ZOONOSIS, 8 letter long, is the longest word composed of letters with 180ï¿½ rotational symmetry in upper case. MOW, SIS and SWIMS, when written in upper case, have 180ï¿½ rotational symmetry. Typewriter Words Aftercataracts and tesseradecades, each 14 letters long, are the longest words that can be typed using only those letters normally typed with the left hand. The more common words stewardesses (12 letters) and reverberated (11 letters) are other examples. Johnny-jump-up and niminy-piminy, each 12 letters long, are the longest words that can be typed using only those letters normally typed with the right hand. Lollipop (8 letters) is more common. Leptothricosis and leucocytozoans, each 14 letters long, are the longest words that can be typed using strictly alternating hands.

Postmuscular, 12 letters long, is the longest word that is normally typed by switching hands every two letters. Uropyoureter (a collection of urine & pus in the ureter), at 12 lettters long, is the longest word that can be typed using only those letters on the top row of a typewriter. Some 11 letter words are: proprietory, proterotype and rupturewort. Some 10 letter words are: pepperroot, pepperwort, perpetuity, pewterwort, pirouetter, prerequire, pretorture, proprietor, repertoire, tetterwort and typewriter. Shakalshas, 10 letters long, is the longest word that can be typed using only those letters in the middle row of a typewriter. Deeded, hummum, muhuhu, and muumuu, each 6 letters long, are the longest words that are normally typed with just one finger.

Words that use each of the eight typing fingers just once include: alpiners, biplanes, captions, clasping, esophagi, elapsing, harelips, impalers, jackpots, lifespan, panelist, placings, plainest, plaudits, pleasing, pralines and scalping. Vowels Words (found in major English dictionaries) consisting entirely of vowels include a, aa ( a type of lava), ae, ai, aieee, iao, oii, eau, euouae, oe, oo, I, o, a, io and uoiauai, the last being the longest vowel-only word (7 letters). A and I are the shortest words composed of vowels only. Euouae, a 6 letter English word consisting only of vowels, also contains the most consecutive vowels. Other words with consecutive vowels are: beauty, liaising ( 3 vowels); obsequious (4 vowels); queueing, aieee, cooeeing, jussieuean, miaoued, zaouia, zooeae, zoaeae, (5 vowels).

Not counting 'y', Twyndyllyngs, 12 letters long, is the longest word in the English language without any of the five main vowels. The 7 letter rhythms is a more common one. Short words are my, sky and thy. Asthma begins and ends with a vowel but has no other vowels in between. Some less common long words with this property are isthmi (alternate plural of isthmus), aphtha and eltchi. Ultrarevolutionaries is a word in which each of the five main vowels occurs twice. Strengths, 9 letter long, is the longest word with only one vowel. Chrononhotonthologos (20 letters) is the longest word with only one repeated vowel. Two other long words with this property are strengthlessnesses (18 letters) and defencelessnesses (17 letters). Abstemious, abstentious, adventitious, aerious, annelidous, arsenious, arterious, caesious and facetious are all words with all five vowels in order. If you count 'y' as a vowel, -ly can be added to most of them to get all six vowels.

Duoliteral, quodlibetal, subcontinental, uncomplimentary, unnoticeably and unproprietary are all words with all five vowels in reverse order (except for 'y'). The shortest word in this category is suoidea (the taxonomic group to which pigs belong) at 7 letters, while the longest is punctoschmidtella (a crustacean) at 17 letters. The shortest word with the vowels in alphabetical order is aerious (7 letters). The longest such word is phragelliorhynchus (a protozoan) with 18 letters. There are many words that have all five vowels in any order such as: authoritative, behaviour, cauliflower, documentation, exhumation, favourite, graciousness, hallucinogen, inconsequential, liquefacation, malfunctioned, neuroglia, ostentatious, pandemonium, questionnaire, revolutionary, sacrilegious, sternutation, tambourine, uncomplimentary, and vexatious.

The shortest words in this category are adoulie, aerious, douleia, eucosia, eulogia, eunoia, eunomia, eutopia, miaoued, moineau and sequoia. Blander can integrate all 5 vowels to make five new separate words: blander, blender, blinder, blonder, blunder. Another example is: patting, petting, pitting, potting, putting. Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) is the longest words consisting entirely of alternating vowels and consonants. Other such words are aluminosilicates (16 letters), epicoracohumeraler (18 letters), hexosaminidases (15 letters), iculanibokolas (14 letters), pararosanilines (15 letters), parasitological (15 letters) and verisimilitudes (15 letters). Syllables Scraunched and the archaic word strengthed each 10 letters long, are the longest words which are only one syllable long.

Rugged is a two-syllable word that can be made one syllable by adding letters to it to make shrugged. The two-syllable word ague can be made one syllable by adding letters to make vague or plague. Are is a one syllable word that can be made into a three-syllable word by adding just one letter to make area. Came, plus one letter, becomes the three-syllable word cameo. Gape can become agape. Lien can become alien. Adding a letter to the middle of smile becomes the three-syllable simile. Adding a letter in the middle of whine makes wahine. The three-syllable word hideous, with the change of a single consonant, becomes a two-syllable word with no vowel sounds in common: hideout. Chasm, dirndl, massacring, rhythm, sarcasm and vrbaite have more syllables than pronounced vowels. Contractions and words ending in ism and ithm also have this property, as does the proper name Edinburgh. The only countries in the world with one syllable in their names are Chad, France, Greece and Spain.

Some two-syllable words which become one-syllable words by adding a letter or letters are: ague/plague, ague/vague, ave/have, rugged/shrugged, aged/raged, aged/staged, boa/boat, ole/sole, ole/whole, ragged/dragged, naked/snaked, sour/source, winged/twinged. Some common words which change to three syllables when just one letter is added are: are/area, came/cameo, crime/Crimea, gape/agape, hose/hosea, Jude/Judea, lien/alien, ole/oleo, rode/rodeo, Rome/Romeo, smile/simile, whine/wahine. Plurals Some words which have no singular form are: alms, amends, braces cattle, clothes, doldrums, eaves, ides, marginalia, pants, pliers, scissors, shorts, smithereens, trousers. Many words, such as deer, moose and sheep, are spelled and pronounced the same way in both their singular and plural forms.

More interesting words with this property are congeries, kudos, premises, shambles, series and species. Fish can be both singular and plural, yet fishes is also a correct pluralisation of the word. Some words which have their plural spelled the same way as their singular form but pronounced differently are: bourgeois, chassis, corps, faux-pas, gardebras,prï¿½cis, pince-nez, rendezvous. Many plural words ending in s become different singular words when another s is added (e.g.

cares/caress, princes/princess): abbes, abys, adventures, bas, bos, bras,bulgines, bus,cares, chapes, cites, cosines, deadlines, discus, esquires, fras, gamines, gaus, glassines, gues, his, homines, hos, kavas, kas, larges, las, los, lownes, marques, mas, millionaires, mis, moras, mos, multimillionaires, needles, nervines, ogres,pas, pis, pos, poses, prelates, princes, pros, pus, sagenes, saltines, shines, sightlines, squires, tartines, timelines, tyrranes, usures and zebras. Many of them switch from masculine plural form to feminine singular form. Kine, an obsolete plural of cow, shares no letters with its singular form. Folk and folks are both plurals, with no singular form. Necropolis is a singular word ending in S that becomes plural when the S is removed. Axe and axis are two different words, yet they share the same plural, axes.

Others are base and basis (bases), and ellipse and ellipsis (ellipses). The plural of man is men. The plural of woman is women. The plural of human is humans. The plural of foot is feet. The plural of goosefoot is goosefoots. The plural of goose is geese.The plural of mongoose is mongooses. The plural of mouse, the rodent, is mice. The plural of mouse, the computer hardware device, is mouses.

Other unusually pluralised words are brother, which may be pluralised to brothers but also brethren; cherub, which is pluralised to cherubim; die, which is pluralised to dice; formula, which may be pluralised to formulas but also formulae; juger, which is pluralised to jugera; kibbutz, which is pluralised to kibbutzim; landsman, which is pluralised to landsleit; libretto, which is pluralised to libretti; ox, which is pluralised to oxen, paries, which is pluralised to parietes; person, which is pluralised to people; rubai, which is pluralised to rubaiyat; schema, which is pluralised to schemata; seraph, which is pluralised to seraphim; tempo, which is pluralised to tempi; and wunderkind, which is pluralised to wunderkinder. Most of these words were taken from other languages - like Hebrew, Greek, German and Italian - with the foreign pluralisation rules retained. The singular form of braces, when used in the orthodontic sense, is bracket. One bracket per tooth is attached when someone is fitted with braces.

Hair is a singular word that suggests more than its plural, hairs. Anagrams Louis XIII, the King of France during the early 17th century, appointed a Royal Anagrammist for a salary of ï¿½1, 200 a year. Representationalism and misrepresentational , each 19 letters long, are the longest non-scientific English words that are anagrams of each other. Other long examples are: conservationalists and conversationalists (18 letters); internationalism and interlaminations (16 letters). The scientific words hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the longest words that are anagrams of each other. Basiparachromatin and marsipobranchiata, each 17 letters long, are anagrams of each other that have no more than three consecutive letters in common. Nitromagnesite and regimentations, each 14 letters long, are anagrams of each other without any consecutive letters in common. Interrogatives, reinvestigator and tergiversation, each 14 letters long, are the longest three non-scientific words that are anagrams of each other.

Monday is the only day of the week that has an anagram, which is dynamo. March, April and May are the only months of the year that have anagrams, these are charm, ripal and yam. Earth, with hater and heart, and Mars, with arms and rams, are the only planets In the Solar System with anagrams. Japan's former capital city (Kyoto, A.D. 794-1868) and present capital city (Tokyo) are anagrams of each other. There is no other word that can be made by rearranging the letters of the word anagram. The word stifle is an anagram of itself! Contained Words Thitherwards contains the most English words spelled consecutively within it: a, ar, ard, ards, er, he, her, hi, hit, hithe, hither, hitherward, hitherwards, I, it, ither, the, thitherward, thitherwards, wa, war, ward and wards, totalling 23 words.

Ushers contains the most personal pronouns spelled consecutively within it: he, her, hers, she, and us, totalling five pronouns. Interchangeability contains the words three, eight, nine, ten, thirteen, thirty, thirty-nine, eighty, eighty-nine, ninety and ninety-eight. Miscellaneous Hotshots consists of the same four letters repeated. There are other 8 letter words with this property, though none of them are common: caracara, chowchow, couscous, froufrou, greegree, guitguit, kavakava and lavalava. Abcaree, Abchalazal, Abcoulomb, crabcake, dabchick and drabcloth are among the only words in the English language that contain 'abc'. Hydroxyzine and xyzzor are the only words that contains 'xyz'. Tmesis is the only English word beginning with 'tm'. The longest alphabetical sequences to appear in English words are 'mnop' and 'rstu'.

'Mnop' appears in such words as gymnopaedic, gymnophiona, gymnoplast, limnophilous, prumnopitys, semnopithecus, somnopathy and thamnophile. 'Rstu' appears in such words as overstudy, overstuff, superstud and understudy. You and ewe are pronounced the same but have no letters in common. Eye and I is another such pair. Oh and eau is another. Subbookkeeper is the only English word with four pairs of double letters in a row. Assessee and keelless are the shortest words with three pairs of double letters. Cooee is the shortest word with two double letters. The most commonly used words in written English are: the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, it, he, for, was, on, are, as, with, his, they, at, be, this, from, I, have, or, by, one, had, not, but, what, all, were, when, we, there, can, an, your, which, their, said, if, do.

The most commonly occuring sound in spoken English is the sound of a in alone, followed by e as in key, t as in top and d as in dip. Of is the only commonly used word in which F is pronounced like a V. The only other words with this property are hereof, thereof and whereof. Tough, though, through and thorough are formed by adding a letter every time between t and ough, but none of them rhymes with any other. The combination ough can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." Underfund and underground are the only two English words that start and finish with 'und'. Widow is the only female form in English that is shorter than the corresponding male term (widower). Most female forms are derived by modifying the male term with a suffix (actor/actress). Demirep is the only word in the English language which is made feminine by applying a prefix, rather than a suffix, to the masculine form, which is rep.

No word in the English language rhymes with depth, month, orange, silver or purple. Dreamt is the only common English word ending in mt. Others are the obscure adreamt, redreamt undreamt and daydreamt. Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous are the only English words ending in -dous. The word queue is the only one in the English language that is still pronounced the same when the last four letters are removed. The only words consisting entirely of letters with descenders in lower case are gyp and gyppy. A word in which each of its letters occurs three times is sestettes. Syzygy is the only English word with three ys. The word means the conjunction or opposition of any two of the heavenly bodies. The word chincherinchee is the only known word that has one letter occurring once, two letters occcuring twice and three letters occurring three times. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions (192 according to the Oxford English Dictionary). "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. Some say that the sentence "I do." is the longest!

Question: Which row on a typewriter contains the most vowels
Answer: The top row